Thomas Jefferson Ingels
Born: 27 Aug 1846
Birthplace: Nodaway County, Missouri
Death: 11 May 1905
Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Atchison, Kansas
Spouse: Jenette Elizabeth Falconer (Ingels)
Married: Belleville, Republic, KS
Father: James Ingels
Mother: Casander Shelton (Ingels)
Children: Jeanette Grace Ingels (Moss), James Wesley Ingels, Nora Gertrude Ingels (Malone), Thomas Jefferson Ingels Jr., Estella June Ingels (Parrott), Bertha May Ingels (Sowers), Willie Ingels, Albert Ingels, Myrtle Luella Ingels (Culver)
Birthplace: Nodaway County, Missouri
Death: 11 May 1905
Buried: Oak Hill Cemetery, Atchison, Kansas
Spouse: Jenette Elizabeth Falconer (Ingels)
Married: Belleville, Republic, KS
Father: James Ingels
Mother: Casander Shelton (Ingels)
Children: Jeanette Grace Ingels (Moss), James Wesley Ingels, Nora Gertrude Ingels (Malone), Thomas Jefferson Ingels Jr., Estella June Ingels (Parrott), Bertha May Ingels (Sowers), Willie Ingels, Albert Ingels, Myrtle Luella Ingels (Culver)
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INGELS V. INGELS.
(Supreme Court of Kansas, 1893. 50 Kan. 755, 32 Pac. 387.)
Error from district court, Atchison county ; Robert M. Eaton, Judge.
Action by Lemuel Ingels against Milliard F. Ingels and Eliza Ingels.
There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error. Af-
firmed.
Allen, J. On the 22d day of June, 1889, defendant in error ob-
tained a judgment in the district court of Atchison county, Kan.,
against T. J. Ingels and M. F. Ingels for the sum of $906.90 and
costs of suit. On the 9th day of August, 1889, execution was issued
on said judgment to the sheriff of Atchison county.
(Supreme Court of Kansas, 1893. 50 Kan. 755, 32 Pac. 387.)
Error from district court, Atchison county ; Robert M. Eaton, Judge.
Action by Lemuel Ingels against Milliard F. Ingels and Eliza Ingels.
There was judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error. Af-
firmed.
Allen, J. On the 22d day of June, 1889, defendant in error ob-
tained a judgment in the district court of Atchison county, Kan.,
against T. J. Ingels and M. F. Ingels for the sum of $906.90 and
costs of suit. On the 9th day of August, 1889, execution was issued
on said judgment to the sheriff of Atchison county.
The History of Atchison County
How long the region embraced in Atchison county has been the home
of man is not known, but the finding of a prehistoric human skeleton, com-
puted by the highest anthropological and geological authorities to be at least
10,000 years old, in the adjoining county of Leavenworth, favors the pre-
sumption that what is now Atchison county was occupied by man at an equally
remote period. Evidences of a very early human existence here have been
found at various times. Near Potter, in this county, the writer found deep
•in the undisturbed gravel and clay, a rude flint implement that unquestionably
had been fashioned by prehistoric man, evidently, of what is known as the
Paleolithic period. In drilling the well at the power house of the Atchison
Street Railway, Light and Power Company, the late T. J. Ingels, of Atchison,
encountered at a great depth, several fragments of fossilized bone, inter-
mingled with charcoal, evidently the remains of a very ancient fireplace.
About 1880, M. M. Trimmer, an Atchison contractor, in opening a stone
quarry at the northeast point of the Branchtown hill, near the confluence of
White Clay and Brewery creeks, in Atchison, unexpectedly encountered a pit
or excavation, eighty feet long, sixty feet wide, and eighteen feet deep, in
the solid rock formation of the hill. The surface of the hill is composed of
drift or gravel, and the pit had become filled with this gravel to the original
surface, thus obliterating all external evidences of its existence. The lower
layer of stone, about six inches thick, had been left for a floor in the pit, and
in the northwest comer this lower strata of stone for about four feet square
had been removed. Water issued from the ground at this point indicating
that a spring or well, or source of water supply, had been located here.
How long the region embraced in Atchison county has been the home
of man is not known, but the finding of a prehistoric human skeleton, com-
puted by the highest anthropological and geological authorities to be at least
10,000 years old, in the adjoining county of Leavenworth, favors the pre-
sumption that what is now Atchison county was occupied by man at an equally
remote period. Evidences of a very early human existence here have been
found at various times. Near Potter, in this county, the writer found deep
•in the undisturbed gravel and clay, a rude flint implement that unquestionably
had been fashioned by prehistoric man, evidently, of what is known as the
Paleolithic period. In drilling the well at the power house of the Atchison
Street Railway, Light and Power Company, the late T. J. Ingels, of Atchison,
encountered at a great depth, several fragments of fossilized bone, inter-
mingled with charcoal, evidently the remains of a very ancient fireplace.
About 1880, M. M. Trimmer, an Atchison contractor, in opening a stone
quarry at the northeast point of the Branchtown hill, near the confluence of
White Clay and Brewery creeks, in Atchison, unexpectedly encountered a pit
or excavation, eighty feet long, sixty feet wide, and eighteen feet deep, in
the solid rock formation of the hill. The surface of the hill is composed of
drift or gravel, and the pit had become filled with this gravel to the original
surface, thus obliterating all external evidences of its existence. The lower
layer of stone, about six inches thick, had been left for a floor in the pit, and
in the northwest comer this lower strata of stone for about four feet square
had been removed. Water issued from the ground at this point indicating
that a spring or well, or source of water supply, had been located here.
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Isaac F. Weyer, the "village blacksmith" of Doniphan, who liv
ed there nearly fifty years, also recalls having heard the Forman
brothers speak about the remains of an ancient village at Doniphan
and says he has always heard a tradition that there was once a
large Indian town at or near that place. W. H. Nesbit, one of the
founders of Doniphan, says that at an early day large masses of
charcoal, pottery and other burnt substances were exposed by the
caving or washing away of the banks of the small creek which
flows through Doniphan. He also says that the rock shelters or
small caverns in the sides of the high bluffs about Doniphan con
tained the bones of Indians; with pottery vessels, arrowheads, etc.
The late T. J. Ingals, of Atchison, who was as well acquainted
around Doniphan as any other man, and who was a close observer
along natural history and archaeolo iical lines, wrote me May 27,
1904; "I should think from the number of graves and stone relics
found in and about Doniphan that it was vastly populated at some
time in the past. Not only on the George Brenner land, but through
out the old townsite the loose stones scattered about over the sur
face and even under the surface, show marks of fire." Mr. Ingels
has done much prospecting for water and drilled many wells in that
vicinity and had excellent opportunity for observation.
Isaac F. Weyer, the "village blacksmith" of Doniphan, who liv
ed there nearly fifty years, also recalls having heard the Forman
brothers speak about the remains of an ancient village at Doniphan
and says he has always heard a tradition that there was once a
large Indian town at or near that place. W. H. Nesbit, one of the
founders of Doniphan, says that at an early day large masses of
charcoal, pottery and other burnt substances were exposed by the
caving or washing away of the banks of the small creek which
flows through Doniphan. He also says that the rock shelters or
small caverns in the sides of the high bluffs about Doniphan con
tained the bones of Indians; with pottery vessels, arrowheads, etc.
The late T. J. Ingals, of Atchison, who was as well acquainted
around Doniphan as any other man, and who was a close observer
along natural history and archaeolo iical lines, wrote me May 27,
1904; "I should think from the number of graves and stone relics
found in and about Doniphan that it was vastly populated at some
time in the past. Not only on the George Brenner land, but through
out the old townsite the loose stones scattered about over the sur
face and even under the surface, show marks of fire." Mr. Ingels
has done much prospecting for water and drilled many wells in that
vicinity and had excellent opportunity for observation.